UVic prof caught up in 2012 health firings remembered as 'force of nature'

Rebecca Warburton worked as everything from a CIA analyst contributing to then-U.S. president Jimmy Carter’s daily briefings to a researcher and University of Victoria professor, but it was the infamous 2012 Health Ministry firings that put her in the headlines.

Warburton, who earned a master’s degree in economics at the London School of Economics, worked for several B.C. government ministries, and won a tenure-track position in UVic’s School of Public Administration three years after earning her PhD through the University of London in 1996. Whistleblower Alana James, a Health Ministry employee, claimed that a rogue group of researchers was bypassing protocols and sharing anonymized data. But over the years, the investigation unravelled.

It was eventually revealed there was no RCMP investigation, as the B.C. Liberal government had publicly stated.Bill Warburton said Rebecca and the rest of the group believed strongly in drug safety and effectiveness, and worked hard to ensure money wasn’t wasted on ineffective drugs.

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